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Studying the CERN-SPS Energy Range with NA61/SHINE EPJ Web of Conferences 70, 00 033 (2014) DOI: 10.1051/epj conf/20147 000 033 C Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2014 The Old New Frontier: Studying the CERN-SPS Energy Range with NA61/SHINE Marek Szuba1,a for the NA61/SHINE Collaboration2 1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 2CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Abstract. With the Large Hadron Collider entering its third year of granting us insight into the highest collision energies to date, one should nevertheless keep in mind the un- explored physics potential of lower energies. A prime example here is the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. Using its large-acceptance hadronic spectrometer, SHINE aims to accomplish a number of physics goals: measuring spec- tra of identified hadrons in hadron-nucleus collisions to provide reference for accelerator neutrino experiments and cosmic-ray observatories, investigating particle properties in the large transverse-momentum range for hadron+hadron and hadron+nucleus collisions for studying the nuclear modification factor at SPS energies, and measuring hadronic ob- servables in a particularly interesting region of the phase diagram of strongly-interacting matter to study the onset of deconfinement and search for the critical point of strongly- interacting matter with nucleus-nucleus collisions. This contribution shall summarise results obtained so far by NA61/SHINE, as well as present the current status and plans of its experimental programme. 1 Introduction There is no doubt that studies of particle collisions at the highest available energies can and do result in important scientific results; the string of discoveries from the Tevatron at Fermilab and the recent observation at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN of what is likely the Higgs boson attest to that. Even so, one should keep in mind the unexplored physics potential of collisions at lower energies. Data from experiments such as those at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN, operating well below the high-energy frontier, continue to contribute to expanding our knowledge of matter, our world and the universe. Examples of projects depending on such data include: 1.1 Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Predicted by Pontecorvo 1957 and since then observed experimentally, neutrino oscillation is a quantum-mechanical phenomenon which can make a neutrino produced with a specific flavour be observed later as possessing different flavour [1]. It stems from differences in quantum-phase prop- agation of different neutrino mass eigenstates and as such requires neutrinos to have mass. One way ae-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Article available at http://www.epj-conferences.org or http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20147000033 EPJ Web of Conferences to obtain accurate measurements of neutrino oscillation is to perform it on neutrinos produced in a controlled environment of a particle accelerator: a high-energy beam of protons is collided against a graphite target to produce positive pions and kaons, which subsequently decay into muons and muon neutrinos. One experiment measuring oscillation of beam neutrinos is T2K in Japan, directing particles from the J-PARC facility in Tokai towards the Super-Kamiokande detector 295 km away in Kamioka [2]. Physics goals of T2K are to obtain one of the first measurements of the θ13 mixing angle of the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) neutrino-mixing matrix, to improve precision of mea- θ ff Δ 2 surements of the 23 mixing angle and the mass di erence m23, and in the future to search for ν CP violation. Other experiments of this sort include MINOS and NOνA (NuMI beam at Fer- milab), LBNE (upcoming new ν beam at Fermilab), and OPERA and ICARUS (CNGS beam at CERN) [3][4][5][6][7]. Unfortunately even with well-defined primary beams, estimating the resulting neutrino flux is not a trivial matter. In order to achieve adequate beam intensity the graphite target must be long, leading to secondary interactions. Moreover, a non-negligible contribution to the flux is made by interactions with support structures such as the target holder and cooling systems. In short, good knowledge of properties of the resulting neutrino beam requires good knowledge of hadron production in the target — which in turn may be much easier to study using an identical target at a fixed-target facility oriented towards hadron spectroscopy than having to set up necessary detectors in situ. Given the energies of proton beams typically used for production of neutrino beams, the CERN SPS complex (indeed, in case of the CNGS beam the proton accelerator in question is the SPS) is a perfect candidate for this task. 1.2 Hadron Production in Extensive Air Showers Another domain which can benefit from hadroproduction measurements in the energy range of the SPS are studies of extensive air showers (EAS) produced in Earth’s atmosphere by cosmic rays. De- tecting and measuring EAS is the standard technique for studying ultra high-energy cosmic rays, as such particles reach our planet so infrequently and from so many different directions that it is vir- tually impossible to gather a statistically significant sample through direct measurements (i.e. using satellite- or balloon-based detectors to observe cosmic-ray particles themselves); using EAS detectors makes it both technically and financially easier to cover a much wider area. Examples of modern EAS experiments include KASCADE-Grande in Germany, Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina and the Telescope Array in the United States [8][9][1]. Improved observation rates of EAS-based cosmic-ray experiments come at a cost of having to accurately reconstruct properties of the original particle from what has undergone multiple levels of interactions with the atmosphere before reaching the detectors. In particular, evolution of the hadronic component of showers remains relatively poorly understood. With primary energies of ultra high-energy cosmic rays remaining largely out of range of man-made accelerators, one is required to employ simulations to provide reference for such evolution — which in turn requires careful tuning of models used for this purpose. This is where measuring hadron spectra at the SPS comes in. Although its energy range falls 15 several orders of magnitude short of the energy of cosmic rays observed by EAS detectors (E0 = 10 − 1020 eV, it provides an excellent match to the energy of the last generation of hadronic interactions in the shower. As many experimental observables (e.g. the number of muons detected by surface detectors) are directly tied to this stage of shower evolution, studying it at the SPS is expected to yield significantly improved predictions. 00033-p.2 ICFP 2012 1.3 High-pT Hadrons in p+p and p+A Colliisions Proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions constitute important reference systems for a wide range of different studies (for instance spectra, scaling with the number of wounded nucleons or binary collisions, nuclear modification factor and Cronin effect, among others) in nucleus-nucleus reactions. However, in the past data sets of this sort at SPS energies and below were relatively small. This prob- lem becomes particularly pressing in case of high-pT hadrons, originating from hard scatterings and thus useful for probing the perturbative-quantum chromodynamics (QCD) regime of strong interac- tions — they are produced so rarely that most such elementary collisions contain none at all, further reducing effective sample size. Fortunately, development of sophisticated detectors and readout com- ponents capable of coping with high event rates of high-luminosity machines such as the LHC has made it possible to also improve event rates of lower-energy detectors, allowing at last collection of large-statistics p+p and p+A data sets. Analysis of this data is expected to greatly improve precision of many existing results as well as allow new, hitherto-infeasible studies. 1.4 Critical Point and the Onset of Deconfinement of QCD Matter Theoretical predictions based on QCD tell us that above certain energy density, quarks and gluons previously confined to hadrons can undergo a phase transition into the quark-gluon plasma — a state in which they can be considered free. The energy range of the SPS is very important for studying this transition because at these energies one can produce collisions both right below and right above the energy threshold for deconfinement [1]. Moreover, it is also in this energy range that we now expect the critical point of the QCD phase diagram [1]. A number of experimental observables were proposed to be sensitive to the onset of deconfine- ment; these include changes in energy dependence of the pion yield per wounded nucleon (“the kink”), K+ of the π+ ratio (“the horn”) and of the mean transverse mass (“the step”) [1]. On the other hand, the emergence of the critical point is predicted to be observable in event-by-event fluctuations of e.g. multiplicity and average transverse momentum [1]. Indications in favour of this hypothesis has been observed both at the SPS and elsewhere [1][1][1]. 2 The NA61/SHINE Experiment 2.1 Overview and Physics Goals NA61/SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Nutrino Experiment) is a fixed-target experiment located in the North Area of the CERN SPS, using a large-acceptance hadronic spectrometer to study a wide range of phenomena in a number of different hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus reac- tions [1]. It is the successor of the NA49 experiment, which took data in the years 1994–2002, and reuses most of its predecessor’s hardware and software [1]. Its large acceptance (around 50 % for 2 −4 −1 pT ≤ 2.5 GeV/c), high momentum resolution (σ(p)/p ≈ 10 (GeV/c) ) and tracking efficiency σ dE / dE ≈ ,σ ≈ (over 95 %), and excellent particle-identification capabilities ( ( dx ) dx 4% (tToF) 100 ps) make it an excellent tool for investigating hadron spectra.
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